Abstract
The corona pandemic changed the lives of people in Germany in 2020. Completely new challenges had to be met in outpatient care and of course also in rheumatology practices. The rapid development, the constant changes, the readjustment, the accompaniment of patients and staff team in this global catastrophe are described. The influence on the daily work and the implementation of new scientific knowledge, e.g. the recommendations of the German Society of Rheumatology (DGRh), are reported. Experiences and insights into what can be learned and taken away from crisis situations are outlined. A detailed chronology of the events, taking the special rheumatological features into account, completes this report of experiences.